If you’re starting out your blog site, you need to generate traffic to it. One way is to have it announced just like the release of any new product or brand in the market. Get yourself to write an honest article about your blog, describing the subject, its focus and objectives. Don’t forget to have a link to your blog site but don’t sound like a hard sell. Send that to all the blog owners you have any kind of relationship with and ask them to have it published on their blogs.
Tell them you will write a good review about their site which you will publish in your new blog. You can also invite them to write a review, on top of the announcement, which they can publish in their own site. These are mutually beneficial promotional activities to generate traffic to your site as well as theirs.